Posts by Francis Boyle

Unfortunately

they're eye-wateringly expensive. If they weren't I'd have one.

I expect

Elon's already got the trophy museum room designed.

According to Wikipedia

she's still in the same place where she's been for 3.2 million years - Ethiopia. Seems she's a bit of a stay-at-home girl. (although I believe she did once do a world tour).

I suspect

that some people around here might know about that.

Re: So basically ...

The resolution may be good but on most levels the design is dull and uninspiring and the special effects are just pathetic.

The wheelbarrow joke

When Dave allen told it it was "the docks"*.

*Or possibly "the Doc's" if he'd been watching Police Squad".

Re: Drug-fuelled rampage?

Well, alcohol is "drugs". Maybe the National Guard is trying to cutted down on dependence on foreign oil.

AIUI

Navstar is the name of the American satellite system that provides the GPS service. The user facing service has always been referred to as "GPS" (or possibly "Navstar GPS" if you want to be very formal). It would be indeed be a good idea if people started referring to it as Navstar, but good luck in getting Americans to do that.

Unfortunately

that's not something marketers want to hear. Soon enough they'll be flogging 8K because "it has to be better than 4K - the numbers don't lie".

Re: Time

If I were remotely interested in making jokes that rely on "well known Internet meme[s]" I wouldn't be doing it here. I come here, and to the comment threads in particular, because it's full of people who know all sorts of interesting (and sometimes obscure) stuff that I don't. And sometimes they make jokes about that stuff. And if I'm interested I look it up* and maybe have a laugh. Or, you know, I don't and move on to the next comment.

*like say typing "github lesbian" into a well-known search engine.

Re: the survey only listed Disney as a viable acquirer. How about AOL?

I chose Disney not because it was any better than any of the other choices but merely because it was mildly amusing (and I had run out of options). And no, not Red Hat. I don't need the option to insert systemd into my Arduino code.

Re: A petrolhead selfie stick

With all those idiots driving around maybe you should consider getting off the street.

Musk is a geek

he thinks like a geek and is thus subject to "nerdview" (basically assuming that everyone sees a system as a system and not just as a thing that does something useful). I hate to say it but this is a case where a good marketing person would have come in handy.

Does Python still take you to XKCD

if you type "import antigravity". Maybe he should get onto that. And maybe while he's there he can complain that calling a language Python is a bit silly. With a bit of luck this will happen. (No, it's not the one you think.)

Probably

This.

Seems to me

less tracking technology and more straightforward position finding technology. The only difference from GPS that I can see is that it will require a certain percentage of devices to reveal their location. But that doesn't need to include you if you don't want it.

Everthing

can be used as a sex toy.

If you have the imagination.

Just use Mimas

Once the fitting out is done the other moons won't stand a chance before your mighty death ray.

A variant of Murphy's Law

If it can be done in a non-standard way* it will be done in a non-standard way. Corollary: never assume it hasn't been done in a non-standard way.

*AKA a hack, in the old parlance.

Wow

So much dog-whistling here it's like being at a sheepdog competition.

Ah, I've worked it out

I look up a German word in a comment on another article which lead me to German Wikipedia (in translation) so Google now thinks I'm German when I'm here. Top quality program logic there, Google.

Re: RE: Lighten up, jeez. I was less defensive than this when I smoked ciggies...

Try looking up the "British Doctors Study". Everything else is just a footnote.

Re: Lots to see here

And NASA still hasn't paid the littering fine.

The cameras in modern phones can be impressively good

They're just somewhat limited and horribly unergonomic. Maybe a third of the features of professional gear are there to enable the photographer actually to do something they couldn't do with consumer gear. The rest is ergonomics.

Re: "Block 5 will be the last major upgrade to the Falcon series, "

I pretty sceptical about the BFR in general but why pick on the engines. The Raptor has been in development for the better part of a decade - It's not as though it's something Musk has just pulled out of his hat. (Also what has the US got to do with it - there are no borders in space.)

Why?

Bangladesh is at 20 N 90 E so by my calculations that would put the satellite at roughly 45~50 degrees above the horizon. Satellite dishes in high latitudes are regularly operated at 30 degrees and probably less so I think you need something more to back up your conspiracy theory.

Re: I take it they will expunge most rap then?

Well, if misogyny* were taken as seriously as racism a lot of rap would have already been consigned to the void.

*I don't mean mild sexism but actual hatred or contempt for women.

FFS

Everyone who seeks power seeks to control language not just your mythical SJW bogeymen.

Or the British Empire

has made a sudden comeback.

What?

You mean the Gilligan's Island mine episode?

Elon's smarter than that and he came up with hyperloop.

Seriously the way to get people to and from airports quickly is a fast train (maglev and tunnels optional).